... there are other proud people who have low self-esteem. They feel they haven't lived up to their potential. They feel unworthy. They want to hide and disappear, to fade into the background and nurse their own hurts. We don't associate them with pr...
In some instances, you may care so much about the person who has hurt you, or be so unable to be angry with him (or with anyone), that you rationalize his hurtful acts by finding some basis in your own actions for his hurtful behavior; you then feel ...
Of course, supernatural acts are what miracles are all about. They are, after all, precisely those things that circumvent the laws of nature. A god who can create the laws of nature can presumably also circumvent them at will. Although why they would...
Identifying Your Dream Some people can easily identify one primary dream. For others, a dream is more elusive. These people often have many dreams at once, or a general idea of a dream that never takes a specific shape.
If you want help in starting to write memoirs, you don't want to fall into the clutches of a famous writer who has been hired to teach at a writing workshop solely because of his name's ability to attract students, rather than because of any teaching...
Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay L...
Detective Trupo: [after Detective Trupo finds Blue Magic in a small bag in the car] What are we gonna do about this? Frank Lucas: We ain't gon' do shit about it. Close it up. Throw it back in the trunk. Everybody go home. Have some pumpin pie, warm a...
In writing I try to pare down the descriptive bits. If I feel that I could say something in as few words as possible, then I would rather do it than to go on padding. One should describe sufficiently to give the reader a sense of what one feels, but ...
I can't look in the mirror and look at fake things. I just can't. I'd rather age.
Adultery is the ultimate deal-breaker for me. I would rather be alone than in a relationship that doesn't honor me.
In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.
It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.
I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.
It's all rather political, mourning is.
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
Walking is a pastime rather than an avocation.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
I'd rather not be known as the Vice President's lesbian daughter.
I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
It's not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.
